Collier's New Encyclopedia

A complete general encyclopedia of 1921 — the world as it was understood just after the Great War, from Aachen to Zwingli, across twelve volumes and six thousand pages.

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the fourth month of the year. armeniaca; also the tree on which it grows. It is wild in Africa and in the APRICOT, a fruit, that of the prunus by the Anglo-Saxons, and Grass month by the Dutch. entrance of a dock. The apron in ship- building is a piece of curved wood placed behind the lower part of the stem, and entrance of a dock. The apron in shipbuilding is a piece of curved wood placed behind the lower part of the stem, and above the foremost end of the keel, to strengthen the stem. The apron also formerly was a piece of sheet lead used in covering the vent of a cannon. any building form-

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